20 Peasants Quotes for You to Enjoy

The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience. Lech Walesa

Truth Strength Patriotism Dignity People Nation Live Harmony Our Sole Solidarity Seek Source Intelligentsia Workers Who Conscience Basic Peasants

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. Michel de Montaigne

Education Because Educated Been Prefer Reason Company Sufficiently Peasants Incorrectly

I am the son of poor peasants who came at a very young age to live in Algeria. I only recently saw the place where they were born, near the city of Marrakech. Ahmed Ben Bella

If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt. G. M. Trevelyan

Cricket Would Never Had French Been Burnt Capable Playing Peasants

The influence of 'Hidden Fortress' comes up a lot because it was printed in a book once. The truth is, the only thing I was inspired by was the fact that it's told from the point of view of two peasants, who get mixed up with a samurai and princess and a lot of very high-level people. George Lucas

Truth Truth Is Book People Once Hidden Only Fact Point Inspired Point Of View Princess Printed Because Mixed Lot Up Very Get Influence The Only Thing Samurai View Fortress Who Thing Peasants Two

To judge from all Communist papers, magazines and brochures, and from all public assemblies, one might even surmise that a revolt of the poor peasants in Western Europe might break out at any moment! Herman Gorter

Judge Papers Out Magazines Western Western Europe Revolt Any Break Public Poor Might Poor Peasants Communist Moment Europe Even Peasants

We can all instinctively understand the idea of life insurance; most of us will feel an instinctive repugnance at the thought of the viatical industry, or 'dead peasants insurance.' As market thinking penetrated the life insurance industry, a moral line was crossed, and the application of market ideas was taken too far. John Lanchester

Life Will Thought Thinking Too Market Moral Life Insurance Crossed Taken Idea Feel Instinctive Instinctively Ideas Most Dead Industry Understand Insurance Insurance Industry Line Far Us Application Peasants

I was born in April of 1966, on the eve of the Cultural Revolution. Soon after, my parents and grandparents all lost personal freedom simply for being intellectuals. So I spent most of my childhood rotating between adopted families of peasants and coalminers. Li Lu

Freedom Parents Lost Revolution Spent April Born Adopted Simply Soon Between Most Cultural Intellectuals Families Personal Childhood Personal Freedom Being After Grandparents Rotating Eve Peasants

There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants. Mao Zedong

Capitalism Tendency Toward Well-To-Do Serious Among Peasants

In America there are none poor, and none even that can be called peasants. Each citizen has some property, and all citizens have the same rights as the richest individual, or landed proprietor, in the country. Marquis de Lafayette

Property Rights Citizen Country Citizens Some Individual None America Same Poor Landed Richest Even Each Peasants

My parents were ignorant peasants from the Old World. Maurice Sendak

World Old Parents Were Ignorant Old World Peasants

The benefit of rich families putting their child through Harvard is always going to exist. But it's quite evident that there are 700 million peasants in China who are never going to go to Harvard. Michael J. Saylor

Rich Benefit Evident Harvard Through Never Putting Always Go Exist Families Child Going Quite China Who Million Peasants

I grew up in a family of peasants, and it was there that I saw the way that, for example, our wheat fields suffered as a result of dust storms, water erosion and wind erosion; I saw the effect of that on life - on human life. Mikhail Gorbachev

I heard so many stories from Gaomi's peasants that I had an irrepressible urge to write them down. Today, Gaomi's peasants know that they have become famous around the world through my writings, but I think they are a little puzzled by this. Mo Yan

The sophisticates of Java, the traders of Sumatra, the peasants from the outer islands found no common ground. During siesta time from one to five, the Islamic group met separately, the Nationalist group met separately, the Federalist and Unitarians met separately. Sukarno

Time Met Group Outer Federalist Islamic Islands Five Nationalist Common Common Ground Java Separately Ground Found Peasants

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